The NEW 3DS MAX Slate Material Editor does more than you think!

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⏱️ Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:46 Overview
1:42 Active View
2:17 Material/Map Browser
4:19 Creating materials in SLE
5:59 Working with Materials - extra options
7:10 Navigation & Working in Active View
9:09 Applying & Picking Materials
10:06 Toolbar
12:11 Workflow with complex materials
13:50 Creating Material Library
14:29 Creating groups
15:08 Scene Material
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[@AG-Architecture]

Nice Material Slate tour! Like many group option, and graphic control around material assembly and creation.

[@Agency-1001]

very nice video we need these specific tutorials Thank you and nice clothes by the way

[@jaoguggenheim312]

I’ve Just installed this New version too😊checking on this💯👍🏻 Thank you!

[@c.pop.echo.28]

quirky matrials, loved it!

[@ivanildo5891]

Excellent!

[@vizintini]

The only thing new here is packaging nodes together. All the other features are present in slate mtl since it was introduced many years ago. Btw , purchasing a high quality microphone might be a good idea :).

[@guyberryman5226]

I can't leave 3dsmax 2021 with all its plugins for the sake of 3dsmax 2023 material editor.

[@jafargraciel]

lol...

[@Vincentvisuals]

don't change but don't stay behind either, zAs far as you getting your work done, your good. But It's also Smart to make good use take advantage of the tools at hand. Sharpen sword once a while for future Battles.

[@rajendrameena150]

Truly said, various pluggin developers stops after 2021.

[@ss54dk]

so fall the most plugin i use is support 2023 very well, like tyflow, forest pack, railclone, vray, TP

[@anthonirosa]

Looks promising

[@denyskzkv]

It's really awesome, but what about stability and working speed?

[@Mohamed-Al-Masry]

Eva Is the 2024 version stable from the 2023 version because the previous version has many problems and instability during work

[@ss54dk]

Great！node editor is the future, the slate material editor update is a good upgrade, mostly texture map will full over fill my window, the node group function is turely useful! I hope node editor can also use on the modeling stack system, so i can see the modeling structure and modifier more clear.

[@rajendrameena150]

the modelling actually is node based inside the system but the interface show it as a modifier stack because max dont have anygood node editor window , not just for material but anything else. I am saying this because in 3ds max you can make instance of any modifier like use same extrude modifier on two different shapes with all the paramters sharing with each other, this function can't be done by layer/stack system as it is unique in node workflow to reuse the same node for multiple objects. the node editor of 3ds max is influenced by blender's "everything nodes" project as in animation nodes are way superior to work and handle large amount of work, thats why houdini, BM fusion, nuke, pftrack, all are node based.

[@dasnico13]

Are you going to make a tut on color management when using vray or corona?

[@pascalcreativedesign8790]

This is great. Next, can you do a tutorial on Arnold? Please and thank you.

[@nidallevine7824]

hi AVA, why in 3ds max 2024, if i insert file in sketchup,. can't select by material,. just hole of material select.. do you know the solutions?..thank you

[@SiljeAnettBjrge]

Thanks for the video! I do have a problem with my material editor color sliders. When i move one of the sliders (for excample the value slider) both hue and saturation is moving as well. So its so hard to make the color i want. Does anyone else have this problem?

[@rajendrameena150]

All the features of 3ds max is highly influenced by blender development so I can say that parallel development of open-source software is very important, also if only open-source softwares are left then they loose the direction of achieving something. Strange but true.... The Boolean also improved in 3ds max due to boxcutter addon of blender, slate material editor window docking feature is inspired from blender shading workspace, I am also started learning rhino and I see how cunningly max implemented the features of it, anyway the competition is a good thing for the industry to grow...

[@marc3dartist601]

This is true. But we must not forget: no 3dsMax : Blender, no Softimage : 3dsMax and so on...

[@JohnSmith-wg3pl]

Jesus Christ. Now everything is about Blender. The docking is the default behavior of Qt.

[@rawadhaddad2198]

I appreciate your efforts I have a question that nobody could answer from my friends who work on vray please I have max 2023 and vray 5.2 All vray materials are tinted by blue color and the transparency is not clear at all that I can't see the properties of the materials unless I make a test render and that prolongs the work time Can you tell me why is this happening How can I fix this blue tint of the materials Help me please

[@ZapAndersson]

Actually you don't need to double-click a map to edit it any more, single click is fine. I think we fixed that in max 2022 :)

[@Tripzorz]

Hi Zap, do you know if there is any way to add annotations, coloured backgrounds, notes in the Slate?

[@hotlineoperator]

Thanks, excellent tutorial - but I don't like node editor in max. That could be one type of view when work in one or two materials, but in real life scene where you have a lot of material it is not working any more, too complicated and constant zoom. Better UI could be simple list of parameters, or table where you can filter quickly what you are working on or get overview of all the material in the scene.

[@guitop]

In Slate material you dont work that way, you select the object you want to modifiy and "grab" his material to modifiy it. . Once it's done you "erase" it and move on. And in the cases you want to have a lot of material, there is the tab system she is showing you at first. You would gain so much using it you wouldnt not even believe it. Especially to work with instanciated map in multiple different materials, it's so usefull. I am an early adopter when it was launched 10 years ago, i would never go back.

[@AlexSvanArt]

The problem I have is that right side of the slate editor (parameters rollout) truncates parameters window from the right side and at least 20% of all necessary parameters are left outside the editor and it makes it impossible to use. I did all I could - reinstall, changed DPI - it just doesn't care. Happens in 2024 version.

[@NathanGW]

please tell autodesk to develop backburner, it has been forgotten since 2019, without ipv6 support and has a lot to improve to facilitate the queue of renders

[@Jez2008UK]

2019??????? It's been forgotten since 1995.....

[@SarahPilko]

Yes, they definitely need to update backburner!

[@RUUDTHIJS17]

I recommend using Render Manager by Pulze :)

[@jecko4328]

does it still slow down the selection of objects in large scenes?

[@ss54dk]

if your scenes too large, try open other panel instead of modifier panel to select object, u will find that will SUPER fast and quick to select object

[@jecko4328]

@@ss54dk yes I know that that helps, but the thing is that you oftenly have to change something in edit poly or mesh. For example in blender this transition is instant but max loads the modifier penel for five seconds. Another speedup is closing the material slate which is what my question refers to. If its closed the selection becomes much faster and there lies the problem cuz most of the time near the end of a project is spent tweaking the materials. Wouldn't it be insane to close the material slate every time you want to select another object and then opening it again. Not to mention that if I have the RT running closing my material slate crashes max

[@JohnSmith-wg3pl]

@@jecko4328 I never have seen max loads the modifier penel for five seconds. WHat version are you using?

[@k2Gaming21]

Which forest pack i can use in 2023....

[@ezr3alfrost]

Everything was always there, it’s most of the people were lazy to use .Only thing new is compound packaging.

[@marerubrum]

Is it still using only 1 core from CPU? Still slow?

[@guimcast1]

lol true, i'd like to know that too

[@marerubrum]

@@guimcast1 That is the most important thing ever in Autodesk 3Ds Max History:) and she passed it unf.

[@timothymoon3971]

i love you

[@Sergij_Vari]

Huge noise in the record:(

[@muhammedrafeeq7628]

Hi

[@davidgarraza]

MATERIAL məˈtɪriəl

[@rajendrameena150]

The only reason for using 3ds max is not 3ds max but rather the render engines like corona, fstorm. Also the availability of huge library of models because max was only good software till 4 years ago. Rest the functions of 3ds max seems outdated and I use blender+rhino for all my modelling needs because 3ds max don't support exporting 2d drawing just like rhino does.

[@oscardelacruz5116]

I agree 100% with you

[@ss54dk]

if base on gour logic, blender also rely on add-on, without add-on blender is nothing, lol

[@oscardelacruz5116]

@@ss54dk That is not the point, the point is that 3dsmax as a software has been a bit behind in terms of innovation and in my personal opinion, it is very cumbersome to use if compared to other software. If some of those render engines and other famous plugins were 100% involved in Blender, I think many would have made the switch by now.

[@rajendrameena150]

@@ss54dk even same Situation is for 3ds max, even blender has inbuilt render engines that is actually used by people. forest pack, railclone, floor generator. And I don't mind using pluggins for any program they just help to complete any specific needs ,without them any program is just for specific needs and blender is a community program so it is obvious that it will have more pluggins and obviously program and add-ons both have just code. Program compliles many codes and addon execute small code but at the end it matters all to the completion of work.

[@guitop]

You want to import DWG as well as Max can do (with units system and all) ? Blender cant You want to import Catproduct (catia models) ? Blender cant. There are a lot of reasons to use 3ds Max, but maybe you dont have to, that doesnt make your case a general statment. Blender just had a big update : hair. Great but i dont care. Doesnt mean Blender is bad at being updated.

[@gohitfdawt3277]

👏🌷😢

[@mae2309]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO what is the new thing in Material editor am scratching my head... I am lost. I thought i was going to see some dynamic changes. such as. grouping your materials and put them inside a container like we do inside Unreal Material editor... who cares about docking your window... So what is new again..????? max is letting me down!!..

[@rajendrameena150]

I agree with that, why all the youtubers making hype of this updates. It will be new thing if it got any material feature from c4d, unreal, blender. They all are makes your material workflow so much easier and even max don't have material preview mode which is very needed while working.

[@JohnSmith-wg3pl]

"grouping your materials and put them inside a container" is added.

[@mae2309]

@@JohnSmith-wg3pl where at and how?

[@JohnSmith-wg3pl]

@@mae2309 compound

[@rajendrameena150]

People are complaining about all the clutter slate material editor does, why not max add a feature to show only materials of selected mesh. The two side of slate material editor makes it to consume so much viewport space that docking will not solve the issue, the create/modifier panel can have one additional tab to show the material properties just like we change modifier parameters. Why you are showing this feature with so much enthusiasm when 3ds max is not solving the problems of material editor. All the major 3d package offers very good material workflow even I love the way blender implemented this, 3ds max user either use compact or slate material editor but blender use quick material addition just like compact material editor and when we actually want to advance our shaders we can switch to dedicated workspace where the same material automatically appears in the form of nodes. I know 3ds max can also do the same but it is manual process not the automatic one. I now feels that all Autodesk softwares are just like design for a specific need even they can also fulfil other needs but they don't wanted to, they wanted you to buy more and more product and become the consumer of Autodesk workflow. Until or unless you try different software, you can't know this slavery, you just think that 3ds max is best.

[@duhokiii____5618]

Nothing new 🤨

[@QaysarboyUnamasov]

3ds MAX is so far behind that it's hard to compete with the competition with such small updates. This time we expected big changes!

[@guitop]

Depends on your field i would say, i am expecting enormous changes in Blender before being able ot use it in archviz. (DWG importer, Catia importer as a starting point)

[@MatteBlob]

​@@guitop Alright let's talk about archviz for instance, you need good cloth simulation which you can't get without purchasing TyFlow/Marvelous Designer, you might need fluid simulations for bathrooms which you need plugins like PhoenixFD for, you need good terrain generation which you can now get only because of TyFlow's latest update, you need iToo Forestpack/V-Ray Scatter for the environement + tens of other small plugins and scripts to just be able to generate architectural patterns and modular designs. We're talking about a software that the majority of it's content creators and users are purchasing it for archviz only, and there is no possible way to do real archviz in Max without all this shenanigan. Not to mention that a lot of their users need good sculpting tools, better hair generation tools, better UVW Unwrapping and a robust procedural texture system without relying so much on plugins. Max manages to disappoint me every single time!

[@guitop]

​@@MatteBlob I disagree on those plugins requirements. Never had to use marveouls or tyflow, neither phoenix. I will jsut agree on Forestpack and railclone, and yet they have updated Array and scattering objects in 3DS Max recently. So they are not "required" for say. You dont need scultping tools in archviz, and let's not talk about the need of hairs lol. Anyway, believe me i would love to be able to use Blender for pro work, it's just not possible with some workflow, aka DWG import, or catproduct (Catia). And it's ok, i may swap when this will be available, one day. Blender seems great, not saying otherwise, but it's not just there yet for everyone.

[@MatteBlob]

@@guitop Here are examples of Cloth Sims & Hair Generation in Max. 1. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lavMeYJngdeDo5Y 2. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnzMZHeQe5mDjNk 3. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aavOi4ppa9JmkNU Hair is not required? How do you render carpets and other fluffy garment? You can't determine how realistic people want their renders to look. This is the industry standard for archviz we're talking about and yet Blender has better hair, cloth and scattering capabilities.

[@MatteBlob]

@@guitop By the way, Max is not meant for archviz only. It is also advertised for games, cinema and VFX which is absolutely crazy.

[@user-qn1xb8fd4b]

actually nothing really new here. All the features you show are there for years. Just a bit new visual style. upd: okay, except package node :) im sure there (maybe) was a lot of work inside, not visible to regular users, but still - when you call your video like that, there shouldnt be so much really old existing stuff under that naming